I remain disappointed that the Stimulus Bill only produced about 4 percent of that money to roads and bridges.

Delays do drive up costs.

I know the President believes in high speed rail. I think that is not yet proven, and it is very, very expensive.

We are all supportive of the 2-year bill that this committee has reported out.

I think some of our Governors and politicians, they promise 20 roads and they have money to complete 10.

We are borrowing literally 40 cents out of every dollar.

We have two significant nominations before our committee today.

I am interested in learning more about this topic.

We cannot lose focus of the fact that what we do here, at the Federal level, results in mandates on the states.

We have serious problems, we are spending billions of dollars, we don't have a cure.

I have learned that some of the EPA proposed Transport Rule was based on incorrect data and assumptions.

It is a very significant matter, and numbers I am seeing are that it costs as much as $90 billion.

President Bush's regulations would drop the mercury emissions 70 percent. Now EPA wants to go to 90 percent.

I do truly think it is incontestable that the Clean Air Act has produced a much cleaner environment.

I know the Chairman shares a belief that nuclear power can be one of our clean energy sources.

But one of the things that is troubling about this to me is the alteration of the normal standard of evaluation of ozone, the 5-year review process.

Just briefly, there are some concerns that have been expressed to me by people that I respect that live in the area that there may be some hesitation to proceed with the NRDA process while the initial response process is still ongoing.

I do believe it is important and thank you for doing that.

So if you don't report on time, it would be Cooper's fault. Right?

I felt very strongly that this accident should not have happened.

Thank you very much.

I think we share the interest, Senator Vitter and the Chairman did, that we don't want this to take too long.

We hope that Congress will consider giving the States... 80 percent of the Clean Water Act funds.

I would note that I am very unhappy that there was not the kind of capping mechanism already constructed.

Most of the money as I have seen in the legislation will be based on an overall need process.